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"If a boat is traveling 46 miles per hour and the distance between said boat and a light house is 200 meters with the angle of elevation to the top of the light house is 68 degrees.
There is a barge that is 56 meters away from the same light house with an angle of elevation to the top of the light house is 19 degrees.
The barge is going 70 mph and will intercept the boater's route at a 90 degree angle. What is the new speed the boater must go to avoid colliding with the barge?"
Furiously writing down the question that was just written on the white board at lightning demon speed, I try to understand the teacher's explanation of how to answer this particular question.
Once done writing, I attempt to shake the writing cramps out of my hand and look up to see that the teacher has already formed a horribly malformed diagram of the problem up on the board.
This is our fifth problem of the day and I'm still not comprehending any of this. Why? Why in the name of the gods must I learn this?
Nobody cares what's the elevation is to an object to avoid hitting it. If the boater doesn't want to hit the barge why not just turn the wheel and -
"Smith. Ms. Smith! Suri Smith!"
"Huh?" I say without thinking. I focus my gaze back on the teacher and see her eye give a little twitch. I must have tuned her out at some point.
"Please tell me what could be so important that it has distracted you from my lesson?"
"Why doesn't the boater just turn the boat?"
"Do what?"
I stare at her a second. She looks like she doesn't actually want me to answer the question, but she did ask.
"Well the boater wants to avoid hitting the barge. So why doesn't he just turn the boat away from the barge."
"He can't."
"Why not?"
"Because... the boat is surrounded by rocks."
"Well see that right there should be your problem. Why did the boater drive into a place that's surrounded by rocks when he has the whole ocean?"
Giving a sigh of exasperation, the teacher told me while rubbing her head dramatically. "Smith, I know you don't want to learn this but please keep in mind that this is something that you will need to be able to do for any future career that you may chose."
I feel my legendary temper start to spike. "I swear you do that on purpose." I accused when she uses that name.
"Oh come on. We both know you keep calling me Smith because you don't like me, and I specifically asked to be called Suri." I explain when she and a few nosy classmates raise an eyebrow at me.
"Oh and by the way, for the career I want to go into, I won't have any need for THAT." I say pointing at horrid jumble of letters and numbers on the board.
"Oh really and what would that be? A waitress? "
"Nope I want to be a circus performer!" I say loud and proud, smirking at the teacher."
"Well that's good, you'll fit right in there."
"Thank y... Hey, wait a minute -"
" Hahaha. You walked right into that one new girl." The guy sitting next to me said, chuckling along with the class to my expense.
Grumbling, I said, "Who asked you?" Which only made him laugh harder and I threw a wad of paper in his mouth. He almost choked on it that, which made me smile.
"Hey new girl what you doing?" The boy that I made eat paper asked.
"I'm hunting elephants." I say. Actually, I am trying to find something edible to eat from in my bag. All I've found so far is a bunch of random junk, my top-hat, clothes, the freaky book and an old sucker that I'm not even going to try to salvage.
There is a group of three boys that decided to sit around my desk when lunch started. They been trying to get me to have a conversation. This is not a good decision on their part because I become very irritable when hungry.
"Hey, no need to get snippy. We're just trying to start a conversation here." Said one of the boys. I guess he got a little offended by my tone.
"Why?" I ask, looking up from my search. I directed the question to all the boys and they do a simultaneous head tilt. It's rather strange with how different they all look.
Sitting turned around in the desk in front of me is paper-boy. He looks like your everyday average student. Short brown hair, neat uniform, good posture, and your usual dash of teenage acne. The acne doesn't take away from his looks any. If anything it makes him look older... That's not fair.
Sitting in a desk to my right is another boy. He looks like a delinquent. His hair is black down to his shoulders and cut in a way that gives him a 'stay away from me' look. His uniform looks like he slept in it...kind of like how mine looked.
The last boy is currently crouched to the left of my desk. Staring at me like a puppy does when it sees a grasshopper for the first time. He's short but still taller than me... darn it. His hair is short light brown with blonde tips.
He looks at me in confusion, "What do you mean why?"
"Why do all of you want to talk to me?"
"Because we're bored."
"You remind me of a koala."
"I just followed them over here."
"...well at least you all are honest...I guess." I say looking at all of them.
"Yep that's us the most h-"
"Oh Seiji.!" Came an annoying voice from the entrance of the classroom.
"Nooooo! Here it comes." the puppy boy says as he stands from his crouched position and one other stood from his seat.
"Run for it!" The dark haired one shouted. Before I could blink the two were gone. Disappeared gone. They would have had to run in front of me to leave the classroom to get to the halls, but they didn't do that. They should still be in the classroom but I don't see them anywhere.
What the heck?
"Hey, where did they go?" I ask the one boy that was left, paper boy, who was currently banging his head against his desk.
"Hey, what's the matter with you and why did those two run off like that?" I asked poking him in the head with my finger.
"Your about to see." He said giving me a very serious look.
"Wh-..."
"Seiji, baby, what are you doing over here?" A tall, lean dark haired girl said from behind him. She must have come up while I wasn't looking.
She looks like a venomous snake. Beautiful scales but deadly to be around. She currently was curled into, I guess his name is Seiji, body with her arms wrapped around his neck in a way that purely said 'mine'.
Seiji did not look very happy, if anything he looked like he was about to jump out the classroom window. It seems like she does this on a regular bases.
"I am trying to talk to the new girl, Kasumi." He says, looking at me and doing an exaggerated eye roll.
"Oh, but baby wouldn't you rather be talking to me than that thing?" She ask while tightening her arms around his neck and shooting me a glare.
I shoot her a cutesy smile and do a little finger wave.
"Be nice Kasumi." He says trying to shoot her a glare of his own. Only problem with that is she was hanging onto him so tight that he couldn't turn to glare at her.
"Why should I? It's obvious she's just trying to get between us." She pouts.
Wait. How did I get evolved in this?
"We are not going out!" Shouts paper-boy.
"But baby-" she starts in a little whiny voice, but is cut off when Seiji jumps up, throwing her off him and starts to scream.
"Enough with the baby already! We are not going out! We will never go out! I do not like you! You are rude to all of our classmates, my friends. You cussed out my mother when she wouldn't let you in my house. How the hell did you find out where I live anyway?!... You know what I don't care. JUST LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE YOU FREAKING PSYCO!"
Everyone in the room is staring at them in utter silence. Soon their eyes turn to fall on the snake girl, Kasumi, and start murmuring among themselves. Kasumi doesn't look sad or heartbroken. If anything she looks pissed.
"Just wait bitch this isn't over." She hisses out while throwing one last glare at me before storming out of the classroom.
Wait. What?
"Good job man! It's about time you told that chick to get loss."
"I agree."
Came the voices of the two boys that had disappeared before this whole incident. They just suddenly reappeared behind Seiji each with a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"Sorry about her." Seiji says giving me an apologetic look.
"Ummm... No problem?"
"Hey we haven't introduced ourselves yet. I'm Haruo." Puppy boy says, waving at me excitedly.
"I'm Katashi." Says the darker haired boy with a much more relaxed wave.
"I'm-" the other boy begins holding out a hand.
"Seiji I know. So what was that all about with snake girl? "I ask taking his hand to shake.
"Snake girl..?... Oh you must mean Kasumi."
"That's his stalker!" Haruo says from his reclaimed spot beside my desk.
"She's not my stalker." Seiji denies.
The boys look at him and start listing examples proving their claim.
"Yes she is. She followed you home."
"She paid one of the janitors for your locker combination."
"She has scared all the other girls that wanted to ask you out away."
"She tried to put a curse on your last girlfriend."
"Okay. Okay. Wait she did what?"
"She -"
An inhuman growl interrupts Katashi's further explanation. They all turn to look at me. The growl had come from my stomach.
"You want to go get some food from the cafeteria?" Seiji asks.
"No."
"Why not?" Asked Haruo.
"No money." I reply.
"Oh... Oh! I know what we can do!" Haruo shouts and runs over to Katashi and whispers in his ear.
"Good idea Haruo. Hey, Seiji we all should go to the club room." He says, shooting a knowing look over to him.
"Ah, I know where your going with this. Come on Suri follow us." Seiji says standing.
"Wait why?" I ask suspiciously.
"You'll get free food." comes a unanimous reply.
"Okay." I say, getting up to follow them.
"Wow this is amazing!" I scream, stuffing my face full of the delicious pancakes.
As it turns out, the guys were the home economic club. Literally, they were the only ones in the club. Seiji is the club's captain. Katashi was the club's new member recruiter. While Haruo was the one that ran errands and picked up supplies. Haruo and Katashi had to switch because Katashi intimidated the potential club members.
"Glad you like it. Hey, you know if you join the club you'll get free food like this everyday." Seiji says.
"Ummm... that's a bad idea." I say stuffing the last bit into my mouth.
"Why?" Haruo asked tilting his head.
"Because me and cooking DO NOT MIX." I say enunciating the last words in hopes that it will help to get my meaning through.
"But everyone can learn and cooking isn't all that we do." He says.
"Yeah we also sew, paint, and put together stuff for the other clubs." Seiji puts in.
"Yeah, I'm not good at any of those things."
"You could always use the club as an excuse to get out of doing things." comes a laid back drawl from the back of the classroom. Katashi had decided that feeding the new girl was boring and went to take a nap on the club's couch.
Apparently, he wasn't completely asleep.
"What do you mean?" I say walking over to where he still laid.
"I used to suck at the whole home care stuff. I leaned a few things after being here, but that's really not why I joined the Home Ec club. When I first started school here, everyone kept hounding me to join the sports club. I would always refuse, but they just kept asking.
Then one day, I was running from the sports club's requiters and I dunked into this room and met those two." he said pointing to the two others that had grouped around Katashi to listen to the story.
"I remember that day." Seiji says smiling. "You ran in here like a bat out of hell and mowed over poor Haruo."
"Yeah I remember that too." Haruo says with a pout. I pat him on the head for comfort like one does with a sad puppy. He looks up at me and smiles. Aww it worked.
"Yeah, sorry bout that Haruo. As I was saying, after I mowed down Haruo we all started talking and Seiji here decided that it would be a good idea if I joined the Home Ec club."
"At the time, the schools policy was that all clubs had to have at least three members to be an official club. Me and Haruo were the only members at the time and needed one more." Seiji explained.
"So we talked Katashi into joining." Haruo said simplifying the story.
"Yeah, after I joined, the other clubs left me alone. Plus, I get awesome food, and I get to sleep when ever I want! Oh and those two actually make good teachers, since I joined I now know how to do a few things."
"Like what?" I ask.
"Like now I can fix any of my clothes that get tore and I can make a couple of edible dishes." He says.
"I really can't cook though. Like really its a bad idea to allow me around any kitchen appliances. I tried to heat up some take out in the microwave and it blew up. I refer to that time as the microwave bomb of 07."
"Well you can't put metal in the microwave-" Seiji starts.
"It was Styrofoam."
"Oh." he says.
"Well you wont have to do anything that you feel uncomfortable with doing. Like Katashi said, we also learn how to sew and other things." Haruo says.
"Why do you guys want me to join so badly anyway?" I ask.
"Well if you join then our club can enter in the school festival contest. The winners gets a cash reward." Katashi says.
"Still doesn't explain why you guys want ME to join." I say.
"We want someone that will let us do our own thing and not try to take over our club and because this is a cash prize contest we know anyone else we invite will want control over what's going on. You don't seem like the controlling type" He tries to explain.
"So if I do join, what will I have to do and what do I get out of it?" I ask them.
"Well, if we do win the contest you will get a quarter of the winning and you don't have to do much just help us out a little." Seiji says.
"Well I guess it won't hurt to join." I say with some hesitation.
"Great! Just sign here, here, and put your initials here. "Haruo says pulling out a pen and paper from behind his back. Wow that kid is quick...
"Yes! We got our fourth member!" They shout.
I couldn't help but smile.
_ "Okay guys I'll see you tomorrow!" I called leaving the classroom.
I'm happy the school day is over with and I have nothing else to do today but sleep. The guys gave me a bunch of individually wrapped sweet buns, in return for me agreeing to go out and help Haruo spread the word of the Home Ec club. Now I don't have to worry about food for awhile.
"Hey little girl! where have you been?" I hear an obnoxious voice call from behind me. I turn to see carrot top and the black haired punk. They're also known as Kuwabara and Yusuke.
"Yeah, why did you disappeared like that yesterday?"
"Ugh..." I respond.
"What do you mean Ugh and why didn't you eat with us during lunch?" Carrot top questioned.
"Because I didn't want to."
"Why not?" he whines.
"Umm because I was hanging, out with my club members." I say hoping that they would get the point and go away.
Its not that I dislike the guys. They were just too hyper active and it's the end of day, I'm tired and want to go to my hideaway and sleep.
"Your in a club? I didn't know that! What club are you in?" Carrot top ask.
"Why would you want to know what club she's in dummy? You only met her a couple of days ago." Yusuke teases him, trying to get a rise out of his friend.
"Shut. Up. Urameshi!" Kuwabara yells. Getting a rise out of him is so easy.
"Okay, well I'm leaving now." I say as I turn back to leave, I feel a hand grab my arm.
"Hey wait up, we just wanted to ask you something-"
'DANGER! DANGER! REPEAT THERE HAS BEEN A DANGER DETECTED IN THE AREA! DANGER DANGER!' came a loud blaring alarm from both of the boys pockets.
"What's that?" I ask trying to get to where the noise was coming from. Which happened to be in the pocket of Yusuke's pants.
"What's what?" He asked nervously trying to move away from my inspection.
"That doesn't sound like nothing." I accuse, fixing him with a glare.
"Really it's nothing." he says, waving his hands as a way to dismiss my questions.
"Yeah, really. Its just part of this new roll playing game." Kuwabara says.
"A game?"
"Y-Yeah a game. Ummm, well you see.. It's a superhero game. Someone gets to be either a hero or a villain. We chose to be heroes, so, whenever a villain is around we have these things that set off an alarm like what your hearing now." Kuwabara explains over the alarm screams.
Yusuke stares at carrot top in amazement."Yeah, what he said. Well, we better run if we're going to catch our villain." he says grabbing the taller one's arm, and dragging him off down the hall way, completely ignoring his protest.
There's something going on there. Oh, well its none of my bushiness. I think as I start to leave again only to be roughly grabbed by another hand.
"Hello Suri. I believe we need to talk."
Damn it... standing over me is Kasumi with two other girls that are taller than her.
"I don't believe so." I say trying to edge away. Only to have her tighten her hold on my arm as the other two girl's box me in from the sides.
"Oh, but we do. You see Suri. Seiji, IS MINE!" She hissed out while tightening her hold to a painful point. I try not to be, but I'm beginning to feel a little intimidated. I've never done well in confrontation. I am a prankster not a fighter. Sure, I may act tough but when your confronted by people alone no anger to rely, on there's only fear.
That fear intensifies as the other girls give me sadistic smirks that promise pain. Smiling, Kasumi introduces me to the girls.
"Suri meet Midori."She says pointing to the girl on my left.
"and Yukari." indicating the one on my right.
"Ummm.." I say looking at the girls.
Midori and Yukari are both tall girls at least 6 ½ ft tall. Their height puts my measly 4ft 7 ½ to shame.
Both girls look strikingly similar, so much so that they could possibly be twins. Tan skin tones with identical makeup that covered all their flaws. I think the girls would be very pretty in a natural setting. A setting that doesn't involved looking down on me with murderous intent.
"Do you know what all of us has a problem with, Suri?" Kasumi asks.
"Umm your medication?" Okay that probably wasn't the smartest thing to say. Bad Mouth! Bad.
SMACK!
I wince as a hard stinging pain hits my face forcing my head to snap back and my eyes to water. Yep bad mouth.
"My problem is, little bitches like you that don't know their place. Little sluts that try to steal a girl's man. I was going to let you off with just a warning, but I guess we have to do it the hard way now. Girls, grab her and follow me." She says walking away.
I'm soon grabbed up by my arms and dragged down the hallway. When I see where their taking me, a little door labeled 'women's', I start to fight like a wild cat kicking, scratching, and yelling.
"No Stop! Bad Idea! Not the bathroom! Can't we work this out like mature adults instead of barbaric middle schooler's?" I ask out of desperation.
"No, I think that a nice dunk in the shitter will show you where you belong." Kasumi snarled holding the door open for the other two to drag me in.
"You don't understand. I can't be in here. The toilet monster will get us!" I shout out at them when I see the bathroom lights start to flicker.
I haven't been in a bathroom since I saw the monster a couple of days ago, except for the bathhouse this morning. I guess the bath was protected by those talismans that old lady made.
Instead of listening to me, the girls stare at me before bursting into a fit of laughter.
"Oh, I've heard plenty of excuses not to take a dip but this is a new one." Kasumi says wiping her eyes.
"I'm not making excuses! We need to leave NOW." I insist.
" .Yeah. Girls take her to the stall."
"No, we have to get out!" I shout struggling like an eel in a trap.
"Stop squirming you-"
"Perhaps you should listen to the child." Comes an ominous hiss that seems to feel the space.
"Who's ever there you better come out now." Kasumi orders looking annoyed about having her fun interrupted.
"Trust me human, you don't want to meet me to reveal myself." The voice replies.
"Let me be the judge of that." She growls out.
I can feel the tension from between these two. Its so thick that one can cut it with a knife.
"Tell you what, I'll just leave so you two can have a nice little chat. What you think? Sound good?"
"Tell you what human, I will grace you and your friends with my presence, seeing as to how you'll jusst be dead afterwards." The voice says completely ignoring me.
"We will see about that." She says with a confident smirk. She also is ignoring me. The two girls holding me look vaguely bored.
They won't be bored much longer. I think I hear the signature Grubble-Glub-Glube of the monster rising from the toilet.
"Midori. Go check it out." She orders pointing to the stall that the voice was coming from.
Midori confidently shoves the stall door open. Only to fall back with a scream at the sight that meets her eyes.
Oozing out of the toilet was a red human like blob. It's different from when I last saw it. It now has more definition to it, with soulless eyes and a mouth. Holy crap it has a mouth.
"What's wrong human. I thought you wanted to meet me." It hisses smiling wide to show razor edge teeth with the likeness of a shark's. Holy Crap. It. Has. Teeth. Now.
All the girls are now staring in horror at the monster. Then I see the light bulb click in Yukari's head. Before I can react, she pushes me forwards towards the beast yelling, "You can have her!"
She grabs hold of Midori's arm, pulling her up as I fall to the floor close enough to the monster that I can smell the putrid stench from it's body.
"Run!" she yells, pushing the other girls out in front of her slamming the bathroom door closed behind her.
Instinctively, I start to scoot backwards to put distance between me and the monster. While backing up, I feel my hand sink into a warm sticky substance. Feeling my stomach lurch, I look down to see that I had placed my hand in some of the monster's ooze that was was running out of the sinks behind me.
Snatching my hand back, I jump to my feet and try to dash to the door only to fine that the ooze has some how formed itself around my feet. I'm trapped.
My heart beat starts to race as I see it smile as it approaches.
"You won't get away this time, witchling."
Now I really start to panic. What can I do? What can I do? I do the only thing I can think of.
"HELP!" I scream.
"It's pointless little witch, no one's around to hear you scream." The monster says laughing.
His laughing doesn't last for long however because a giant flash of green light shot out at the monster causing it to stumble backwards.
What the heck?
I try to look around to see where the light came from. Suddenly, a heavy weight falls on my head.
"Ouch." I go to bring my hands up to my head, only to find that strange book in them. It's open to a page and I get the feeling it wants me to read what ever is written.
"Did you just save me?" I ask it, only to be interrupted by a furious growl. 's mad, I think. I'm about to panic again, but then I see the book glow a soft green like it was trying to tell me what to do.
"Do you want me to read this?" I ask indicating the passage it had open up to. The book blinks its green glow twice. I'll take that as a yes.
Looking at the passage, I know its not in a language I know, but I can try to pronounce the words the best I can. I already feel calmer, remembering that I have magic. I always forget that when I'm threatened.
As I begin to read the words the best that I can, I know that it's working as the room starts to shake and lightning shoots from all the corners and into the monster. My voice grows louder as I read, feeling the power coursing through my body.
After I utter the final word, I watch in horror as the monster seems to boil itself from the inside out releasing a blood curdling scream as it erupts.
The force of the eruption sends me flinging back into the wall and unhinges some of the stall doors and spatters itself across the whole room, some even landing on me. Well, I guess its dead.
Clutching the book against my chest, I adjust my bag on my shoulder and head out the bathroom. When I open the door, I see a girl with short brown hair staring at me in horror.
"Don't try the mystery meat in the cafeteria." I say making a face.
The girl just nods in understanding. "No one does." she says.
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